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When the war against Hitler began, almost
all the Jewish organizations joined forces with the
Allies and some of the most eminent leaders, such as
Weizmann, declared themselves on the allied side; but the
German Zionist group, though it was a small minority at
the time, took the opposite side : from 1933 to 1941, it
was committed to a policy of compromise and even of
collaboration with Hitler. The Nazi authorities, even
while they persecuted the Jews, for example by dismissing
them from the Civil Service, kept contact with the
Zionist leaders, granting them special treatment and
distinguishing them from the "integrationist"
Jews they were hunting down.

The accusation of collusion with the
Hitlerian authorities does not therefore apply to the
immense majority of Jews; these had not even waited until
the war to fight Fascism with weapons, as they did in
Spain from 1936 to 1939 as members of the International
brigades, all the way to the Warsaw ghetto where the
fighters of the "Jewish Committee" showed that
they knew how to die in battle.

But the highly organized minority of
Zionist leaders collaborated with the Nazis for eight
years. Their one goal was to create a powerful Jewish
State, while their racist vision of the world made them
more anti-British than anti-Nazi.

* * *

On September 5th 1939, two days after the
Anglo-French declaration of war on Germany, Chaim
Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, wrote to the
British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. In his
letter, he declared : "We Jews are on the side of
Great Britain, and shall fight for democracy." He
added that "the Jewish representatives are ready to
sign an immediate agreement to allow the use of all their
resources in men, techniques, material aid and all their
capacities." This letter was printed in "The
Jewish Chronicle" of September 8th, 1939 ; it
was a genuine declaration of war on Germany by the Jewish
people and raised the problem of internment of all Jews
in Germany within concentration camps as "citizens
of a nation at war with Germany."

* * *

In the days of Hitler and Mussolini, the
Zionist leaders behaved in an ambivalent way with regards
to Fascism, at times sabotaging the anti-Fascist struggle
and even attempting to collaborate at others. The
fundamental aim of the Zionists was not to save Jewish
lives but to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Ben
Gurion, Israel's first head of State, declared outright
to the "Labor" Zionists on December 7th 1938 :

"If I knew it was possible to save all the
children in Germany by taking them to England, and
only half of the children by taking them to Eretz
Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we
must take into account not only the lives of these
children but also the history of the people of
Israel."

(...) Must we help all those who need it without
taking into account the characteristics of each one? Must
we not give this action a national Zionist character and
attempt to give priority to the saving of those who can
be useful to the Land of Israel and to Judaism? I know it
may seem cruel to pose the question in this way, but
unfortunately we must establish clearly that if we are
able to save 10,000 people out of the 50,000 people who
can contribute to the construction of the land and to the
national rebirth, or else a million Jews who will become
a burden for us or at best a dead weight, we must
restrict ourselves to the saving of the 10,000 who can be
saved - despite the accusations and the appeals of the
million left behind."

It was this fanaticism which inspired, for instance,
the attitude of the Zionist delegation at the Evian
conference of July 1938, where 31 nations had gathered to
discuss the absorption of refugees from Nazi Germany :
the Zionist delegation demanded, as the only possible
solution, the admission of 200,000 Jews to Palestine.

The Jewish state was more important than the lives of
Jews.

As far as the Zionist leaders were concerned, the
worst enemy was "assimilation". In this they
resembled the Hitlerians as do all racists, for whom the
fundamental preoccupation is purity of blood. This is why
the Hitlerians regarded the Zionists as valid
interlocutors who served their designs, insofar as
Hitler's ultimate goal was to rid Germany, and later
Europe, of all Jews. We have proof of this collusion
between Nazis and Zionists.

In a memorandum of June 21st 1933 to the Nazi party,
the "Zionist Federation of Germany"
expressed itself as follows :

"In the foundation of the new State, which
has proclaimed the race principle, we wish to adapt
our community to these new structures... Our
recognition of the Jewish nationality allows us to
establish clear and sincere relations with the German
people and its national and racial realities.
Precisely because we do not want to underestimate
these fundamental principles, because we too are
against mixed marriages and for the maintaining of
the purity of the Jewish group...The Jews who are
conscious of their identity and in whose name we
speak, can find a place within the structure of the
German State, for they are free of the resentment
that the assimilated Jews must feel;...we believe in
the possibility of loyal relations between those Jews
conscious of their community and the German State.

To attain its practical objectives, Zionism hopes
it will be able to collaborate with a government that
is fundamentally hostile to the Jews....The
realization of Zionism is impeded only by the
resentment of Jews from without against the present
German orientation The propaganda in favor of Zionism
currently aimed against Germany is essentially
non-Zionist... "

Source : Lucy
Dawidovitch, "A Holocaust reader", p. 155.

The memorandum added that "should the Germans
accept the cooperation of the Zionists, these would try
to dissuade Jews abroad from supporting the anti-German
boycott."

The Hitlerian leaders were well-disposed towards the
Zionists, whose exclusive aim was to create a state in
Palestine, thus favoring their own designs to get rid of
the Jews. Alfred Rosenberg, the chief Nazi theoretician,
wrote :

"Zionism must be vigorously backed so that a
yearly contingent of German Jews shall be transported
to Palestine."

Reinhardt Heydrich, who was later to become
"Protector" of Czechoslovakia, wrote in Das
Schwarze Korps, the official organ of the S.S. in
1935, when he was head of the S.S. security. In an
article entitled "The invisible enemy", he made
a distinction between two kinds of Jews :

"We must separate the Jews into two categories,
the Zionists and the partisans of assimilation. The
Zionists profess a strictly racial concept and, through
emigration to Palestine, they help to build their own
Jewish State...our good wishes and our official goodwill
go with them."

Source : Hohne.
"Order of the Death's Head", p.333.

"The German Betar received a new name: Herzlia.
The activities of the movement in Germany had to obtain,
of course, the approval of the Gestapo; in fact, Herzlia
acted under the protection of the Gestapo. One day, a
group of SS attacked a Betar summer camp. The head of the
movement then complained to the Gestapo and, a few days
later, the secret police declared that the SS in question
had been punished. The Gestapo asked the Betar what
compensation would seem most adequate. The movement asked
that the recent prohibition that had struck them,
forbidding them to wear brown shirts, be lifted; their
request was granted."

Source :
Ben-Yeruham, "Le livre de Betar" T.II, p. 350.

A circular issued by the Wilhelmstrasse indicated :

"The goals that this category of Jews have
set themselves (those Jews who oppose assimilation
and favor a regrouping of their co-religionaries
within a nation), with the Zionists in the front
rank,are those least distant from the goals pursued
in reality by Germany's policy towards the
Jews."

Source : Circular
letter by Bulow-Schwante to all the Reich diplomatic
missions. #83. February 28, 1934.

"There is no reason," wrote Bulow-Schwante
to the Ministry of the Interior,"to impede by
administrative measures the Zionist activity in Germany ;
for Zionism is not in conflict with the
National-Socialist program, whose object is to make the
Jews leave Germany progressively."

Source : Letter
number ZU 83-21. 28/8, April 13, 1935.

These directives confirmed previous measures and were
applied scrupulously. By virtue of the privileged status
of Zionism in Germany, the Bavarian Gestapo addressed the
following circular to the police on January 28,1935:
"By reason of their activity orientated towards
emigration to Palestine, the members of the Zionist
organization must not be treated with the harshness
needed in dealing with the members of German Jewish
(assimilationist) organizations."

In exchange for their official recognition as sole
representatives of the Jewish community, the Zionist
leaders offered to break the boycott which the world
anti-Fascists were trying to organize.

Economic collaboration began in 1933 : two companies
were created : the "Haavara Company" at Tel
Aviv and the "Paltreu", in Berlin.

The mechanism of the operation was the following : a
Jew wanting to emigrate would deposit a minimum of 1,000
pounds sterling at the Wasserman Bank in Berlin or in the
Warburg bank in Hamburg. With this sum, Jewish exporters
could buy German goods for Palestine, and pay the
corresponding amount in Palestinian pounds into the
Haavara account at the Anglo-Palestine Bank at Tel Aviv.
When the immigrant arrived in Palestine, he received the
equivalent of the sum he had deposited in Germany.

Several future Israeli prime ministers took part in
the "haavara" undertaking, including Ben
Gurion, Moshe Sharret (who was then called Moshe
Shertok), Golda Meir (who supported it from New York),
and Levi Eshkol, who was its representative in Berlin.

The operation was advantageous for both parties : the
Nazis thus succeeded in breaking the blockade (the
Zionists managed to sell German merchandise even in
Britain); whereas the Zionists were able to operate the
"selective" immigration they desired : only
millionaires were able to emigrate, their capital
providing the funds needed to develop Zionist
colonization in Palestine. In accordance with the goals
of Zionism, it was more important to save Jewish capital
from Nazi Germany that would permit the development of
their undertaking, than to save the lives of poor Jews,
unable to work or fight, who would have been a burden.

This policy of collaboration lasted until 1941, in
other words eight years after Hitler's rise to power.
Eichmann liaisoned with Kastner. The Eichmann trial
revealed to some extent the mechanism of this connivance,
of these "exchanges" between Zionist Jews
"useful" to the creation of a Jewish State
(wealthy personalities, technicians and youngsters who
could serve to reinforce an army, etc.). with a mass of
Jews who, being less favored, were left in Hitler's
clutches.

The president of the committee, Ytzhak Gruenbaum,
declared on January 18, 1943 :

"Zionism comes before everything else.."

"They're going to say I'm an
anti-Semite," Gruenbaum answered, "that I
don't want to save the Exile, that I don't have a
Warm Yiddish heart (...) Let them say what they want.
I won't demand the sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds
sterling to help European Judaism. And I think that
whoever demands such things accomplishes an
anti-Zionist action."

Source : Gruenbaum:
"Jours de destruction", p. 68.

This was also Ben Gourion's point of view:

"The Zionist's task is not to save the "rest" of
Israel which finds itself in Europe, but to save the
land of Israel for the Jewish people."

(Quoted by Tom Segev. op.cit.p.158.)

"The leaders of the Jewish Agency agreed on the
fact that the minority which could be saved had to be
chosen according to the needs of the Zionist project in
Palestine."

Source: Idem p.125.

The conclusion of Isaiah Trunk's book : "Judenrat"
(MacMillan, New York 1972) was that:

"According to Freudiger's calculations, fifty
percent of the Jews could have escaped if they had
not followed the instructions of the Jewish
councils." (p.141)

Significantly, at the time of the 50 th anniversary of
the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto, Yitzhak Rabin asked
Lech Walesa not to let one of the co-leaders of the
insurrection, Marek Edelman, make a speech.

In 1993, Marek Edelman had been interviewed by Edward
Alter for the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz". In
this interview, he recalled those who had been the true
instigators and heroes of the Warsaw ghetto's "Jewish
fighters' committee" :

"Socialists of the Bund, anti-Zionists,
Communists, Trotskyites, Mihal Rosenfeld, Mala Zimetbaum,
Edelman and a minority of Left-wing Zionists from the
Poalei Zion and the Hashomer Hatzair."

"It was they who fought against the Nazis with
weapons, as did the Jewish volunteers in the
international brigades of Spain. Over 30% of the
Americans in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were Jews, who
were attacked at the time by the Zionist press because
they fought in Spain instead of going to Palestine."

Source :
"Jewish Life", April 1938, p. 11.

2,250 of the fighters in the Polish Dombrovski
brigade, out of a total of 5,000 Poles, were Jews.

These heroic Jews fought on all fronts side by side
with the antiFascist forces of the world. And yet, the
Zionist leaders declared in an article by their London
representatives entitled : "Must Jews take part in
the anti-Fascist movements?" "NO !...",
setting a single goal : "the construction of the
land of Israel".

In his autobiography, the President of the World
Zionist Organization, Nahum Goldman, described his
dramatic meeting with the Czech Prime Minister, Edward
Benes, in 1935. Benes accused the Zionists of having
broken the boycott of Hitler with the
"Ha'avara" (the transfer agreements) and blamed
the refusal of the world Zionist Organization to organize
resistance against the Nazis.

"I have had to take part in many painful
meetings in my life, but I have never felt as
miserable and ashamed as during those two hours. I
felt with every fibre of my being that Benes was
right."

The Zionists, counting on Mussolini's hostility to
England, established contact with him as early as 1922.
He had received them after his march on Rome in October,
on December 20th 1922.

Source : Ruth Bondy,
"The Emissary: a life of Enzo Sereni" (p.45).

Mussolini received Weizman on January 3rd 1923, and
another time on September 17th 1926; Nahum Goldman,
president of the World Zionist Organization, had a
meeting with Mussolini on October 26th,1927, where the
Italian leader told him : "I will help you to create
this Jewish state." (Nahum Goldman : "Autobiographie",
op.cit.p.170)

This collaboration was already a form of sabotage
against the international anti-Fascist struggle. It
subordinated the entire Zionist policy to the sole design
of building a Jewish state in Palestine. Its design
remained unaltered during the war, even when Hitler's
persecution of European Jews was at its worst.

When the Jews were deported from Hungary, Rudolf
Kastner, the vice-president of the Zionist organization,
negotiated with Eichmann on the following basis : if
Eichmann allowed the departure to Palestine of 1,684
"useful" Jews who would help in the
construction of the future state of Israel (capitalists,
technicians, soldiers, etc...) Kastner would allow
Eichmann to make 460,000 Hungarian believe that they were
not being deported to Auchwitz but simply being
transferred.

At the time of the Eichmann trial, Judge Halevi
recalled that Kastner had intervened on behalf of one of
his Nazi interlocutors : one of Himmler's henchmen,
Standarten feurher Kurt Becher, escaped punishment thanks
to Kastner's testimony at the Nuremberg Trial.

The Judge was formal :

"There was no truth or good faith in
Kastner's testimony...Kastner deliberately committed
perjury in his testimony before this court when he
denied that he had intervened on behalf of Becher.
Furthermore, he concealed this vital fact : his
action on behalf of Becher was made in the name of
the Jewish Agency and the World Jewish Congress...It
is clear that Kastner's recommendation was not made
on a personal basis but also in the name of the
Jewish Agency and the World Jewish Congress...and
this is why Becher was released by the Allies."

After the verdict, Israeli opinion was shaken. In the
newspaper "Haaretz", Dr. Moshe Keren wrote on
July 14th 1955 :"Kastner must be tried for
collaboration with the Nazis..." But the evening
paper "Yediot Aharonot" (23rd June,1955)
clearly explained why this was impossible. "If
Kastner is tried, the entire government might collapse
before the nation, following what this trial will
uncover."

What would be discovered was that Kastner had not
acted alone but with the agreement of the other Zionist
leaders who were members of the government at the time of
the trial. The only way to prevent Kastner from talking
and causing a scandal was for him to disappear. And
indeed, he died at just the right moment, after which the
Israeli Government introduced an appeal to rehabilitate
him. The Supreme Court granted the appeal.

This policy of collaboration reached its apogee in
1941, when the most extremist Zionist group, the
"LEHI" ("Fighters for the Liberation of
Israel"), led by Abraham Stern and, after his death,
by a triumvirate of which Itzak Shamir was a member,
committed " an unforgivable crime from the moral
point of view : advocating an alliance with Hitler, with
Nazi Germany, against Great Britain."

Eliezer Halevi, a well-known Labor unionist, member of
the Gueva Kibbutz, revealed in the weekly "Tel-Aviv
Hotam" (August l9th, 1983) the existence of a
document signed by Itzak Shamir (who was then called
Yezernitsky) and by Abraham Stern; this document was
handed over to the German embassy in Ankara at a time of
all-out war in Europe, and when Marshal Rommel's troops
were already on Egyptian soil. The document said, among
other things, "In the matter of concept, we identify
with you. So why not collaborate with one another ?"
In its issue of January 31st,1983, "Haaretz"
quotes a letter marked "secret", sent in
January 1941 by Hitler's ambassador to Ankara, Franz Von
Papen, to his superiors. In it, he described his contacts
with the members of the Stern Gang, joining a memorandum
by the Nazi secret service agent in Damas, Werner Otto
Von Hentig, regarding the negotiations with the envoys of
Stern and Shamir. The memo said, notably :
"cooperation between the Israel liberation movement
and the new order in Europe conform with one of the
speeches of the Chancellor of the Third Reich, in which
Hitler stressed the need to use every combination of
coalition to isolate and defeat England." It also
said that the Stern Gang had "close links with the
totalitarian movements in Europe, their ideology and
structures." These documents are to be found at the
Holocaust Memorial (Yad Vachem) in Jerusalem, classified
under the number E234151-8.

One of the historical leaders of the Stern Gang,
Israel Eldad, published an article in the Tel Aviv
daily,"Yediot Aharonot" (February 4th, 1983) in
which he confirmed the authenticity of these negotiations
between his movement and the official representatives of
Nazi Germany. He asserted straight out that his
colleagues had explained to the Nazis how there was a
probable identity of interest between the new order in
Europe based on the German concept, and the aspirations
of the Jewish people in Palestine, as represented by the
Stern freedom fighters for Israel.

This text was entitled :

"Basic principles of the military
organization(NMO) in Palestine (Irgun Zevai Leumi)
concerning the solution of the Jewish question in Europe
and the active participation of the NMO in the war on the
side of Germany."

The following are extracts :

It emerges from the speeches of the leaders of the
German National Socialist State that a radical
solution to the Jewish question implies an evacuation
of the Jewish masses from Europe. (Judenreines
Europa).

This evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe
is the primary condition of the solution of the
Jewish problem, but it is only made possible by the
installation of these masses in Palestine, in a
Jewish state with its historical frontiers.

To resolve the Jewish problem definitively and to
liberate the Jewish people is the goal of the
political activity and the long years of struggle of
the "Movement for the Freedom of Israel"
(Lehi) and its national military organization in
Palestine (Irgun Zevai Leumi).

The NMO, knowing the benevolent position of the
Reich government towards the Zionist activity within
Germany, and the Zionist emigration projects,
considers that:

1) There could exist common interests between the
foundation of a new order in Europe, according to the
German concept, and the genuine aspirations of the
Jewish people as they are incarnated by the Lehi.

2) Cooperation would be possible between the new
Germany and a renewed Hebrew nation (Volkish
Nationalen Hebraertum).

3) The establishment of the historical Jewish
State on a national and totalitarian base, linked by
a treaty to a German Reich, could contribute to the
reinforcement in the future of Germany's position in
the Middle East.

On condition that the German government recognizes
the national aspirations of the 'Movement for the
Freedom of Israel' (Lehi), the National Military
Organization (NMO) proposes to participate in the war
on the side of Germany.

The cooperation of the Israel liberation movement
would go in the direction of the recent speeches of
the Reich chancellor, in which Mr. Hitler stressed
that all negotiations and any alliance should serve
to isolate England and to defeat it.

Because of its structure and concept of the world,
the NMO is narrowly linked to the European
totalitarian movements.

Source : The
original text, in German, is to be found as appendix
number 11 of the book by David Yisraeli : "Le
probleme palestinien dans la politique allemande, de 1889
" 1945", Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan. Israel,
1974,p. 315-317.

According to the Israeli press, which has published a
dozen articles on the subject, the Nazis never took the
proposals of Stern, Shamir and their friends seriously.

The negotiations stopped abruptly when the Allied
troops arrested the emissary of Stern and Shamir in June
1941. The emissary, Naftali Loubentchik, was actually
arrested in the Nazi secret service office at Damascus.
Other members of the group continued to have contacts
with the Nazis until the arrest by the British
authorities of Izhak Shamir in December 1941 for "terrorism
and collaboration with the Nazi enemy."

Such a past did not prevent Izhak Shamir from becoming
Prime Minister, and from still being today the leader of
a powerful "opposition", the most fiercely
determined to continue the occupation of Cisjordania.
This is because, in fact, the Zionist leaders all pursue
the same racist goal, notwithstanding their internal
rivalries : to chase all the native Arabs out of
Palestine through terror, expropriation or expulsion, in
order to remain the sole conquerors and masters.

Ben Gurion once declared :

"Begin undeniably belongs to the Hitlerian
type. He is a racist, ready to destroy all the Arabs
in his dream of unification of Israel, prepared to
resort to any means to realize this sacred
goal."

The same Ben Gurion never believed in the possibility
of coexistence with the Arabs. The fewer Arabs there were
within the borders of of the future state of Israel, the
better it would be. He did not say so explicitly, but the
overall impression one gets from his speeches and his
comments is clear: a major offensive against the Arabs
would not only defeat their attacks but would also reduce
as far as possible the percentage of the Arab population
within the State.

"(...) He can be accused of racism, but then
one will have to put on trial the entire Zionist
movement, which is founded on the principle of a
purely Jewish entity in Palestine."

Source : Bar Zohar
(op.cit) p.146.

At the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the Attorney
General, Haim Cohen, reminded the judges:

"If it does not coincide with your
philosophy, you can criticize Kastner...But what does
that have to do with collaboration?...It has always
been in our Zionist tradition to select an elite
to organize immigration to Palestine... Kastner did
nothing else."

Source : Court
record 124/53. Jerusalem district court.

This prominent magistrate was indeed evoking a
constant doctrine of the Zionist movement : its goal was
not to save Jews but to build a strong Jewish state.

Rabbi Klaussner, who was in charge of "Displaced
persons," presented a report before the Jewish
American Conference on May 2nd, 1948 :

"I am convinced people must be forced
to go to Palestine....For them, an American dollar
appears as the highest of goals. By the word
"force", I am suggesting a programme. It
served for the evacuation of the Jews in Poland, and
in the history of the 'Exodus'... To apply this
programme we must, instead of providing 'displaced
persons' with comfort, create the greatest possible
discomfort for them...At a second stage, a procedure
calling upon the Haganah to harass the Jews."

There were several variations on this method of
inducement and even of coercion.

In 1940, to arouse indignation against the English,
who had decided to save the Jews threatened by Hitler by
taking them to Mauritius, the Zionist leaders of the
"Hagannah" (led by Ben Gurion) did not hesitate
to blow up the ship when it called at Haifa on December
25th 1940, causing the death of 252 Jews and English
crew-members.

Its Jewish community (110,000 people in 1948) was
well-implanted in the country. The chief Rabbi of Irak,
Khedouri Sassoon had declared :

"The Jews and Arabs have enjoyed the
same rights and privileges for a thousand years and
do not consider themselves as separate elements in
this nation."

Then began the Israeli terrorist acts in Baghdad in
1950. Confronted by the reticence of the Iraki Jews to
register on the immigration lists for Israel, the Israeli
secret services did not hesitate to throw bombs at them
to convince them they were in danger...The attack on the
Shem-Tov synagogue killed three people and injured dozens
more. It was the start of the exodus baptized
"Operation Ali Baba".

Source : Ha'olam
hazeh. April 20th and June 1st 1966, and "Yediot
Aahronot", November 8th 1977.

This has been a consistent doctrine ever since
Theodore Herzl replaced the definition of Jew no longer
as a religion but as a race.

Article 4b of the fundamental law of the State of
Israel (which has no constitution),which defines the
"Law of the return" (5710 of 1950), stipulates
that:

...will be considered as Jewish a person
born of a Jewish mother, or converted. (racial
or confessional criteria)

Source : Klein :
"L'Etat juif", ed. Dunod.Paris.p.156.

This was in keeping with the founding doctrine of
Theodore Herzl, who constantly harped on the theme in his
"Diaries". As early as 1895, he declared to a
German interlocutor (Speidel) :

"I understand anti-Semitism. We Jews
have remained, even if it is not our fault, foreign
bodies in the different nations."

They did indeed have a common goal : to assemble Jews
in a world ghetto.

The facts have borne out Theodore Herzl's arguments.

Pious Jews, like many Christians, repeated each day :
"Next year, Jerusalem, " making of
Jerusalem not a specific territory but the symbol of the
Alliance between God and Men, and the personal effort to
deserve it, so that the "Return" occurred only
under the impulse of anti-Semitic threats in foreign
countries.

On August 31st 1949, Ben Gurion declared to a group of
American visitors to Israel :

"Although we have realized our dream of
creating a Jewish State, we are only at the
beginning. There are still only 900,000 Jews in
Israel, whereas the majority of the Jewish people
still remains abroad. Our future task is to bring all
the Jews to Israel."

Ben Gurion's goal was to bring four million Jews to
Israel between 1951 and 1961. 800,000 came. In 1960,
there were only 30,000 immigrants for the year. In
1975-76, emigration out of Israel outstripped
immigration.

Only the great persecutions, such as that in Romania,
had given a certain impulse to the Return. Even the
Hitlerian atrocities did not succeed in fulfilling Ben
Gurion's dream.

Out of the two and a half million Jewish victims of
the Nazis which sought refuge abroad between 1935 and
1943, hardly 8,5% went to settle in Palestine. The United
States limited their number to 182,000 allowed to enter
US soil (less than 7%); England limited the number to
67,000 (less than 2%). The vast majority (1,930,000), in
other words 75% found shelter in the Soviet Union.

Source : Institute
for Jewish Affairs of New York, quoted by Christopher
Sykes in "Crossroads to Israel", London 1965,
and by Nathan Weinstock, "Le sionisme contre
Israel," p.146.